coming up on r t breaking news in ukraine a large fire started amid the unrest in the southwest of the country has led to over thirty deaths well the u.n. holds an emergency meeting over the violence an update just ahead. german chancellor angela merkel is in d.c. for meetings with president obama from ukraine to edward snowden and n.s.a. spying a report on the agenda between the two world leaders. and has the u.s. become a nation of pill popping children we'll look at the issue of overmedicating our kids later in the show. it's friday may second eight pm here in washington d.c.

i'm lindsey france you're watching our team america we begin with breaking news tonight in the southern ukrainian port city of odessa dozens have been killed in a large fire connected with the unrest there the numbers have varied the local police tell the associated press that more than thirty people are dead after the local trade unions house was set on fire it began in the midst of a standoff between pro and anti-government activists this was not a pure military operation this was a fascist style assault upon innocent civilians in that city who had taken refuge in that building. today it was also marked by violence between and to care protesters and the ukrainian military at least three cranium troops and two antic air fighters were killed after the government launched a military assault on the eastern city of slovyansk which is held by anti-government protesters archies paula slayer reports from there. the word on the street is that the ukrainian army is preparing another advance come to. find

a it has people here in the town terrified they think this is going to happen and as a result you have checkpoints like the one where i'm standing at every exit and entrance of this town but not only there as you travel around inside just about every road now ends in a road block now sometimes a man and sometimes they just have tractors like this one sometimes they have trees that have been cut down just to close off that road people have been coming forward as human shields i've been talking to a number of women who say they want to be there and use their bodies to defend this city that they love and to stop ukrainian tanks from advancing forward there was also been a call for residents inside the town to remain inside their homes now there have been alarms sounding throughout the day friday most of the roads in the city same to all quiet shops have closed down there are some people moving about it but by and large most people are sitting in their homes watching news develop on their television screens this is a city that is in lockdown the city has been completely surrounded by the ukrainian

army and it started with an assault at around five o'clock local time friday morning there were two helicopters that were shot down the casualty count on the ukrainian side is two pilots did one pilot is currently being treated in a hospital not far from where i'm standing and seven ukrainian soldiers have been injured the count on the anti here protesters side is also two people dead and we're hearing that a number have also been injured i was talking earlier to one of the commanders he says that given that they are so ill equipped compared to the ammunition that is at the disposal of the ukrainian army it's a surprise that the casualty count isn't that much higher now russia is demanding that key of stop this operation it says it will and needs to be held responsible for what has happened here on friday and that us operation is going to see the country divided that is something that we are hearing people say that now there's no way back in that. the road forward is only

a split ukraine it's not only in slab yawns that we've been focusing our attention in the city of adesa thousands of people took to the streets both pro and anti here they were stones being thrown there was violence we are hearing reports of injuries we've been told that more than ten people have been injured the right sector was among those crowds they were shouting things like hang the jews so worrying developments coming out of a decision on the topic of the right sector we are hearing reports of the right stick to is inside slovyansk as well so it certainly does seem as if the right sector is operating they were seen jumping out of a helicopter with uniforms what that would right sick to uniforms they were heavily armed and they have people here terrified russian companies are now being banned to fly to do next and how to cough that is the latest news that we are receiving that ban of course being imposed by the ukrainian government at the same time the attack on slavyansk on friday is as i said earlier now setting the scene for further

violence and for a country that is going to be divided russia is also calling on the united nations security council to convene as soon as possible to deal with the situation so as friday night approaches here in eastern ukraine people very tense people very frightened the situation seemingly about to escalate the r.t. slovyansk eastern ukraine. an emergency meeting of the united nations security council was convened today over the wireless rocking eastern ukraine are going to wraps up the proceedings for us. a two hour meeting of the united nations security council the thirteenth time the council meets on the ukrainian crisis a second time this week the traditional blame game in food with the u.s. and west blaming russia for the increased chaos and violence in eastern ukraine accusing moscow of lies and militarizing the conflict in the meantime it was russia that called for this session to take place basing the urgency of the meeting on

what it called a resuming of military action against its own people by the kiev government citing unraveling events as criminal misadventures that could lead to even more catastrophic consequences than the violence that has already taken place according to russia the spoken intentions of the cool pointed kiev government voting to refrain from violence point to hypocrisy as word stand far from deeds this friday at the u.n. russia cold for the west to stop toin with the situation instead of telling russia where and how to keep its own troops on its own territory russia again reiterated that it believes the u.s. and e.u. have stood in the way of a peaceful solution to the crisis by stirring about on the ground that escalated each time the visit of a u.s. official took place at the security council the u.s. accused russia of building a case for intervention thinking of truth his peace while moscow chooses seizing more territories well russia says the outbreak of further violence in ukraine needs to stop and returning to the geneva agreements is key ukraine's representative at the u.n. said events unraveling in eastern and southeastern ukraine are aimed at tackling

highly armed militants on the ground and that the only military in the east of the country are russian supporters meeting wrapped up with russia reminding the council that forceful change of power always leads to disability the sion and that russia had suggested a variety of formats for dialogue throughout the crisis and would never deny the implementation of any agreements that have been reached saying that the word lie that the west uses against russia can also be a selective interpretation of one's own position obviously pointing at washington's position and participation in the way events have unraveled the security council meeting wrapped up this friday with russia calling for the council to agree that all of its members are interested in the holding of violence as was recently agreed in geneva and i think you're going to r.t. . it's been just less than three years since german chancellor angela merkel visited the white house when she received the medal of freedom and the top issue of the world's agenda was the arab spring at that time well she returned to the white house today but this time there were no medal ceremonies and the agenda is far more

complicated for chancellor merkel and president obama and it ever was before at the top as the situation in ukraine as united states is trying to push a reluctant germany into harsher sanctions against russia complicating that push the n.s.a. scandal which has not only wounded personal relations between the two leaders but also presented both with political challenges at home today in the rose garden chancellor merkel and president obama addressed the press and sam sachs was there. the two world leaders spoke to reporters today trying to disguise what's become an increasingly complicated relationship between their two nations chancellor angela merkel arrived at the white house for the first time since two thousand and eleven and she wields more power today and she ever has and arguably more than any of her recent predecessors that's because as the largest economy in europe and the defacto policy maker in the european union germany is crucial to president obama's push for

more sanctions against russia and right off the bat the two leaders made it clear that they will be working together on broader economic sanctions against russia should they be necessary the russian leadership must know that if it continues to destabilize eastern ukraine and disrupt this month's presidential election we will move quickly on additional steps including further sanctions that will impose greater costs i am firmly convinced that the united states of america and the european union need to act in concert here and they have done so in the past and they are going to continue to do so but the question is can merkel convince germans at home that more sanctions are in order at one point in the press conference president obama told reluctant germans to stop watching russian t.v. but the biggest opposition is saying sions comes from germany's top business leaders who rely on russian markets and are openly pressuring chancellor merkel to switch course still talking about ukraine gives the two world leaders

a chance to publicly present a unified stance talking about the n.s.a. does not but they had to still as questions about spying dominated half the press conference merkel is facing heat at home for not responding forcefully enough to the n.s.a.'s activities in germany lawmakers in germany want the us to agree to a new spy treaty with them but president obama said that. no such treaty exists with any nation and both he and chancellor merkel admitted that resulting the n.s.a. fiasco or require more work in the future we do not have a blanket no spy agreement with any country. with any of our closest partners what we are doing with the germans as we're doing with the french as we do with the british or the canadians or anybody is to work through. what exactly.

the rules are governing the relationship between each country to get hyped up to mrs clinton how do you know that the situation is that or that we have a few difficulties yet two of a kind but so this is why there's going to be there's a dialogue i had you know you know to come business. to me as you put it so why have it you need to be and will have to be more than just business as usual now before chancellor merkel returns back to germany she'll meet with the u.s. chamber of commerce and make a pitch for a new transatlantic trade agreement that's really the one issue on the agenda that she president obama and their business allies at home can see eye to eye on but don't expect any breakthroughs here either as trade deals have stalled in respective legislatures over concerns with handing too much power off to corporate interests so photo ops and ongoing dialogue happening at the white house today but both leaders acknowledge that

a lot of work is still left to be done. the white house in washington d.c. same sex. for more insight into u.s. foreign policy as it relates to the situation in ukraine i want to bring in colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell. colonel in your opinion what is the best thing for the u.s. to do right now and its own interest and in the interest of ukraine. well it's difficult to answer that question without including the europeans and of course the members of nato and moscow. but when you put it in the way you did i would say what the united states needs to do in conjunction with moscow and in conjunction with the nato is move towards position of neutrality towards ukraine i don't mean crimea but i mean what's left of ukraine crimea i think is a done deal and should be treated as

a done deal and should be part of the negotiating posture that the e.u. and nato take with moscow but we need most sides to understand that a neutral you try to ukraine not one moving towards nato not anytime in the forseeable future moving towards nato and not one wholly under the sway of moscow but one that is left alone to get its act together it's a basket case right now governance wise financial wise economic and trade wise it needs to be left alone so it can work on its own problems in its own time and more or less become a stable country that's not to say that others can't help it china turkey the united states brazil europe they can give it financial and economic assistance and even sign trade deals but it has to all be done in conjunction with a general appreciation of ukraine's neutrality that's the only way we're going to

get out of this without a shooting war that grows ever more larger and causes some real problems well when it comes to neutrality there's been a long time dispute over whether nato could go any further a staff of the end of the cold war now there's an increased presence of the western alliance near the russian border and some talk of ukraine joining nato what is russia to do in a situation like this i don't blame russia i won't say putin because. i don't see putin as the best thing for russia right now but i don't blame russia the duma for example for applauding what putin has done. the u.s. violation of its promises to gorbachev and to yeltsin when gorbachev acquiesced in the reunification of germany for example that nato would not go one inch further east were violated by late in majorly by president clinton and continued to be violated by george w.

bush i don't blame russia for its great power instincts to stop it so that's a big part of the negotiating posture both countries ought to take to the united states for example could wind up renouncing the agreement that i believe was announced in tbilisi where we said that we were looking for georgia to eventually eventually be a member of nato no american is going to die for tbilisi an article five applied to tbilisi would make nato a phony alliance immediately nato is having a hard time as it is anyway it doesn't have a result d'être anymore since the soviet threat won away and we are desperately trying to find one for it out of our out of area operations being the latest attempt to do so in afghanistan and elsewhere so this is this is a complex problem but it does have answers to it it just requires exquisite diplomacy and a lot of ability on both moscow and washington's part to sort of look at the

situation from as i said a nobody wins except ukraine and others who might get caught in this trap in the future and to back off from the great power desire to have more and more people adhere to your philosophy let's face it what the heck is the difference between the philosophy of most countries in the world today when it boils down to making money and getting rich at it's at its root. we have predatory capitalism in china we have predatory capitalism moscow we have predatory capitalist and washington indeed we have predatory capitalism everywhere in the world so let's back off for a minute and let's everybody just concentrate on making money and not making more while sad now are we seeing american lawmakers american politicians wanting to push for a new cold war does it appear that way to you or i can imagine so when you have luddites

like john mccain and others on the floor of the senate pontificating about how the president the united states ought to stand up to president putin and so forth this is all nonsense i would think that almost anyone in the world from beijing to rio de janeiro to moscow would have figured out by now that the united states congress is not someone to listen to when trying to figure out the foreign policy of the united states ok our last question here now it's no secret that viktor yanukovych had a history of corruption in ukraine and when he was accused of calling out the place on my down protesters he was demonized by a lot of people saying it was inappropriate to do now the government in kiev is using force against protesters in eastern ukraine calling it anti-terrorist operations and so on foreign minister sergei lavrov says this is a practice of double standards by western countries and kids what do you think about this. again we're in the weeds there where in the tactical details which are important for day to day operations perhaps but they don't really matter in the

greater scheme of things everyone has some guilt on their side the united states the e.u. ukraine itself. moscow. there is tactical daily current guilt on all sides and i've just admitted that the united states bears a large burden for its expansion of nato we need to forget that we need to push that aside and think about the present and the future and the only way to deal with this situation in order to do that is to achieve some form of neutrality for ukraine let the conflict calm down tamp it down and then work out some deal if you will that allows ukraine to be neutral and to be independent and do its own thing economically financially and so forth with as i said the good offices in the help of the great powers and others in the world who want to offer it now this

is going to happen with other countries too if we're not careful and we need to we need to stop this rhetoric that gets so high like that rhetoric on the floor of the u.s. senate and elsewhere and we need to think about this in terms of we don't want another nineteen fourteen i could see how this could get out of hand rapidly we're talking about two major nuclear powers we're talking about creeping into sanctions that are going to cause for tat actions that are going to lead to more actions and then more actions this needs to stop and it needs to stop very soon and people like john mccain and others on the floor of the u.s. senate and their equivalents in moscow need to stop their rhetoric otherwise they're going to regret it sorely in the future all right thank you very much for joining me retired army colonel lawrence backcross time. school children in the united states are more medicated for mental health issues than ever before according to the centers for disease control among children aged six to seventeen

seven point five percent are on some sort of prescribed medication for emotional or behavioral troubles the study also found that children from poor families were more likely to be medicated that more well to do children and the boys are more frequently prescribed psych meds than girls i was told earlier by dr goli mendelian assistant clinical professor at the mt sinai health system she's also the author of your playlist can change your life i first asked her whether children are perhaps being misdiagnosed or maybe these high numbers are because there's a legitimate rise in behavioral problems or maybe even the medical technology has just caught up with a preexisting problem here's what she had to say about that. i think this new diagnosis is the key and when the parents are young adults they would know is that something is going on that their emotional difficulties or inability to concentrate i think the souce the c.e.o. the child psychologist child because that i diagnosis is the key well i think the

emotional disturbances are on that iris and the prescribe the medication psychotropic medication sometimes could be the most. which. implement but i think we all need to be aware of that are so many other therapists that are available in technologist acknowledges therapists as they like to call behavioral therapy cognitive behavioral therapy groups that have been in mindfulness a very colorful to children to start with again stimulants could be of the gold standard for attention deficit disorder but if we can start with behavioral therapy and understand where those behavioral disturbances coming from that would be the key do you think there's a possibility that pharmaceutical companies are pushing for doctors to overprescribe these children that may or may not have a legitimate behavioral issue. well i think pharma company and this is their

job and this. beautiful marketing tool i mean they can be sometimes a bit pushy but again i think it's up to the parents say young adults and to see the profession know. that they know what is the problem and they make their choice and actually be aware of that again you know new technology. news that are putin. mentioned mindful as they let's go behavioral therapy. not only with medications that are on the market which might be the key of course of somebody who suffered from severe emotional disturbance ok so there's not just this medical medication quick fix there's also the long term stuff the therapy that brings me to my next question you know the study also found that children from poor families are more likely to be on meds and boys more than girls why do you think might this be

well i mean that's a sickly boys more often than. the girls especially with attention deficit disorder with. their this is why boys in terms of the boys sammael a i think unfortunately maybe in some wonder sort of area that parents would very well aware of the octomom doll it's a sort of veil a bow is i mention. this mindfulness vice you beg this is maybe why the media becomes the truest because i mean that's just the fast fix them and stimulus of that at the end for somebody who can sleep well who is anxious. in fact ideally hope all therapeutic model to seven based model if this would be available so the medications my month of the. ok well this is the worrying part about the possibly the over medicated children another study just released shows that kids and young

adults who are nish initiating therapy with antidepressants especially at high levels are seeing a higher risk of self harm now is this because of their state of mind before hand their mental state before hand or do the drugs play a role. well i think that it was a warning before when a but it's grabbing on to the precedence meaning do you self harm but again that somebody is suffering from severe mental disorder from the sort of the sample either bipolar disorder or depression drive so this is the psychotic as they provide that it doesn't have a choice and this would be the best way the girl again i mean there were some cases with increase and so far i'm while prescribing antidepressants it's usually we talking about children we're not talking about adults with the teens so there are some so it isn't the case but is this is going to prisons can increase so harm but again i think you do you wish to wait for it was unconscious in the really make

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a giant beer distributor organization who's controlled gear distribution in florida for decades supposed to do sponsor legislation and donate to political campaigns of course because that's what works here in the u.s. and it just didn't work again because the florida senate just passed as these seventeen fourteen which restricts how much craft breweries can sell the bill allows microbreweries telling up to two thousand kegs a year of their own brew to sell beer in any size container to consumers but if they sell more than two thousand cases a year the bill prohibits them from selling their beer in sealed bottles that contain. for home consumption directly from their microbreweries now will have to go through distributors this same distributors represented by the florida beer wholesalers association who backed the bill now the small brewers have to buy their own beer back from the distributors had marked up prices which is not only idiotic

but could potentially run the small breweries out of business the legislators who voted for the bill are trying to say it's to preserve the state beer distribution system as if the existing system is something wholly to preserve at any cost when they're not saying openly that the florida beer wholesalers association just doubled its contributions to all of their reelection campaigns so there you have it it's nothing but a classic case of big business and government cronyism squashing smaller businesses right out of existence it's an outrage every time it happens but you should be marching in the streets about it this time my fellow americans because this time it's about your beer tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the risk that.

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like job creation kicked into high gear this april as u.s. job growth increased at its fastest pace in more than two years and jobless rates plunged to the lowest level since the collapse of lehman brothers now the labor department released job numbers on friday morning and nonfarm payroll jobs increased by two hundred eighty eight thousand last month that was the largest gain since january of twenty twelve and b. to wall street expectations revised march and february data showed thirty six thousand more jobs than. reported household spent more in the first quarter as well as manufacturing began to accelerate helping explain why large manufacturing companies such as ford have started taking on new workers now the figures support the fed's view that the economy is gaining momentum and indicate that the fed will continue trimming the stimulus the increase in employment was broad based with

construction companies adding the most workers in three months still the report did give some troubling signals on the economy's help while the unemployment rate fell to five and a five and a half year low of six point three percent part of that decline was because hundreds of thousands of people left the labor force altogether now overall however the data suggested that the economy was gathering strength then stocks rose following the release of the report on friday morning treasury yields climbed and the dollar jumped to session highs against the euro and the yen fed policymakers said the economy is showing signs of picking up and that the job market is improving now the fed's open market committee trimmed its monthly asset buying to forty five billion dollars it's the fourth straight ten billion dollar cut and said that further reductions in measured steps are likely as always we'll be watching and keeping you posted on all the latest.

you can it is a physicist author and bloomberg views columnist now he writes about economics and what physics meteorology and the natural sciences can teach us about economics fifteen to twenty years ago he was an editor with the international science journal nature and ended up reviewing a lot of the work submitted by his peers and applying the laws of physics to economics of finance and the markets since then he has been increasingly drawn into finance and markets and has published two books in the field now i started by asking him what a probability distribution is take a look at what he had to say a good probability distribution. we face there's lots of events that are uncertain so you're going to leave the studio tonight and you're going to walk out of the street and the first person you encounter will be you know of a certain height you can't predict what their height is going to be it's a it's a probabilistic chance event. so to characterize what you will expect that to be

you say well the average may be you know five to six feet with some fluctuations around that you know maybe six inches tall or six inches shorter in a really rare event maybe they'll be a seven foot or who comes along and there's to a bit of mathematics that characterizes what is called the normal distribution which is a kind of very smooth distribution about an average and applies to lots of things in the world such as the heights of people or the weights of people or the size of a basketball next basketball you can see size of a cat whatever it might be you know mark what is the excuse me is it that the galaxy a normal distribution also known as the bell curve most people know it is that is a poor representation of how events and markets are distributed is that a poor representation of. it's a but it is a poor representation especially for the extreme events so. most days in the market are pretty ordinary days prices just move a little bit up or down that's you know that the bell curve has a peak at zero which is like no change at all that's the most likely thing to

happen sometimes it goes up sometimes goes down but the most likely thing is going to be something around zero. so for the bell curve does a pretty good job when it's ordinary times and things aren't changing very much a little bit up a little bit down it's in the special times when things change a lot it turns out that the bell curve fails entirely so it says really big changes say a price change of ten percent in one day she'd only happen maybe once every one hundred years it turns out they happen a lot more frequently than that because the statistics of the market markets just don't work to the tune of the bell curve people don't make their decisions independently and the price movement isn't just the contribution of lots of independent factors there are factors that are one factor causes another which influences another and this leads to these really large scale extreme events that can happen very quickly so that's why the bell curve is ok in ordinary normal times but it really fails us in the extreme events which happen to be much more

frequently hitting us than the bell curve would suggest they should right now i want to talk about this you wrote a book called ubiquity about distribution is observed in nature and events like forest fires and earthquakes like you mentioned in our interview but can you tell me about the power law distribution as first of all power law is a great name for it so i want to hear more about this specifically. right they have the power law it's a really hard thing to describe because the reason it's called a power law has to do with some technical mathematics and nomenclature. what the essential thing about a power law which which makes it really interesting to physicists is that it says if you feel if you find this mathematical pattern in a certain set of data whether it's about forest fires or requests or market movements whatever it is it says to you that there's nothing there's no inherent scale or preferred scale to the events that happen in that system the process that

generates forest fires or earthquakes or market fluctuations isn't designed to give you an average size around a short sure. the interval it's designed to give you this huge variation in sizes over this enormous range in a sense it doesn't it doesn't have a preferred scale and when you find things like that from a physicist perspective it's very interesting to try and try to start understanding where do these things come from how can a process be like that where it doesn't tend to give you any typical size but gives you this this huge range of different things so that's where the where this power law idea comes from and as you mentioned yes it's it is one of the most ubiquitous and that's the reason i chose that title for the book patterns that we see in the world around us we grew regroup very used to the normal statistics and gaps in statistics that mathematicians had worked out centuries ago but i'd say about one hundred years ago sixty years ago people really started noticing that these power laws and these these distributions that go of huge range of scales are everywhere

in our world if you look at the size of craters on the moon you find that kind of distribution if you threw some rocks at the wall and cross them up you'll find there's a few big chunks there's an intermediate number of intermediate sized chunks there's lots of dust and debris at the tiny scale again the results range over this huge range of scales out and comes out of a very natural process so interesting i want to ask you how our power law distribution is related to outcomes we observe in the financial markets. ok so i mentioned before the fat tail distribution so. the bell curve is this nice curve that goes down to zero in the extremes which means so this is the size of the event and this is the likelihood of you going to find it so events that are smaller are very likely events that get bigger and bigger are very unlikely and the bell curve goes down and very quickly and says that it's just not going to happen maybe once

every hundred years or a thousand years or you can see this ten percent or bigger change in them in the market. the fat tail distribution which is the which is the power of law they're the same thing it isn't like the bell curve it's like it's much more like this it goes off very gently and so way out here on the tails it says those big changes the ten percent change in the market isn't very unlikely after all in fact if you're going to see one once a year or once every two or three years and so that's what the power law is it says this fat tail of extreme events is actually much more likely than we would have thought it was is this kind of the subject matter and seems discussed and i seem to have black swan the idea that you know these these outliers these things on the outskirts or are more common than we think we have to care for them. absolutely so this this research has been going around for it's been building for forty fifty years so you know when i wrote ubiquity fifteen years ago or twelve years and i guess it was about fifteen years ago i was trying to capture. the emergence of this

idea in science i and talent i think brilliant book with his his own style of. energy in language that really captured that idea so the black swan is one of these extreme events that is actually perfectly normal it's an expected event the natural world and not markets or natural systems they produce those events and we should really be surprised by them now can you tell me about the fingers of instability and the critical state what they do is they started doing experiments with the with the sand pile so they take a table and they start dropping grains of sand one by one drop a grain let it come to rest proper grain drop a grain after a while you course you get a mound that builds up. and they keep going drop the grain see what happens eventually the grains start triggering avalanches that go you know either a short distance or further down the pile sometimes a big avalanche knocks half the pile off the table and what they did is over time

studied the size of the apple. and that gets caused by the next single grain that's dropped on the pile and then what they found is that this this pile organizes to what they called a critical state which is a state of kind of extreme and permanent. instability or it's on the threshold of always being unstable and the distribution of these avalanches turns out to be true these fat tails just like earthquakes just like forest fires or market fluctuations so that that was a physicist and author mark peak at a. time now for a very quick break but stick around because when we return we're bringing you the best of the very best from this past week plus edward harrison and i are tackling your viewer feedback in our weekly accrued interest segment and as we head to a quick break here are a look at some of your closing numbers of the bell stick around.

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george mason university and a leading advocate of public choice theory he gives us his take on picotee as well and afterwards boudreau as colleague professor brian kaplan gives us his impassioned view on the need for an open immigration policy we also have stephen kinzer law from the university of limerick in ireland now he tells us that a lot of what's going on with european sovereign bonds is about investors chasing yield and not fundamentals and finally we have mark chandler the head of currency strategy at brown brothers harriman and our go to guy for everything f.x. and the f.x. markets now he schools us on timeframes and currency trading and purchasing power parity take a look. proposal is for annual tax on capital well. i find that personally i find that. problematic i don't know quite how you go about appraising capital wealth on

a on an annual basis how you go about capturing wealth that is across countries. and it strikes me that the effect of the ripples it was basically to depress capital asset prices which i'm not sure why that is a reasonable economic objective i favor instead progressive income taxes reduction of loopholes and exemptions and a stiff inheritance tax which is something with that one can impose once appraisal upon death basically and that gives an enormous incentive for charitable distributions before death which is i think really the effective way of getting large fortunes divided up and back into circulation in a socially useful fashion it's the way that we do this in the united states and everybody who goes to a university or to a hospital is a beneficiary of that system now you say you like a tax on income opposed to an annual tax on basically capital wealth can you differentiate between income and capital wealth how would you do that well very

simply and the income tax is something we've had in this country since one thousand seventeen everybody knows how it works there were elaborate rules who reports you read come in you you pay a tax according to a table capital wealth is it's your stocks your bonds the value of your property i don't know what other household assets you would put into that maybe the value of your artwork appraising that on an annual basis would be exceptionally complicated and it overlooks the fact that the very wealthiest people know where the cayman islands are so that it's not as though you would have complete access to their records and the event the premise seems to be that there is this natural tendency in capital societies for wealth to accumulate in fewer and fewer hands or in smaller and smaller portions of the population and that this is the dean. because if that happens then the people who are in the lower echelons of

the population will feel dispossessed and they may they may. revolt one of the complaints i have so far about the book maybe he addresses it later is that he's also in addition to being insensitive to public choice concerns he's also insensitive he also blue views to what happens to be absolute living standards of people at the bottom so it may be that you get you become ten times richer than me but if my absolute living standard is increasing if my welfare mice mice my prosperity is higher in absolute sense well i'm better off and frankly if i'm better off i see no reason why i should complain about about your wealth as long as you can steal it from me first of all i think it is it is the way that we treat foreigners is unjust also with us wanting to say that we shouldn't have to go and give charity to foreigners we shouldn't we shouldn't have to go and send the welfare checks i agree with that but to say that it's ok for americans to prevent say for now from getting a job from american from an american player wants to hire him seems to me to be no

better than a jim crow laws where you say blacks are allowed to be hired by certain kinds of employers. if there is a worker wants to work an employer wants to employ him aas this seems unjust to be too for the law to say no sorry you're not one of the right country you chose the wrong parent so you can't take that job i'll send now of course if doing the right thing would be incredibly costly it would go i can understand why people would want to do it ali you know the next key part of the argument is if you really look at all the social science on immigration the cost of doing the right thing the cost of treating foreigners justly is really us nothing i mean the main thing to remember is that our standard of living depends on production and what immigration laws do is trap people and core countries where they produce at only a very tiny fraction of their full potential i mean think about how little you could accomplish if you lived in haiti right so there are dysfunctional countries where even very talented people can. get much done for a long list of reasons where is just moving to

a country that works better now we see that people can drastically increase their earnings typical haitian comes the u.s. can get a raise about two thousand percent very quickly and i guess i can employ american employers are some are nicer the nation employers said a haitian in america can accomplish so much more than a haitian haiti now this is a course now this is great for the haitian but me and my point in terms of what would it actually cost us to be just is that it's also great for americans because americans consume the stuff that the haitians are that that nations may be looking at are is going to do is we're not looking at people making a sound decision on the basis so irish macroeconomic fundamentals it's a good news story for our nation but the real reason that it's happening is people are chasing gildea loon fellatio low interest rate environment they want to refer to sovereign debt and are looks the least risky and that's what's driving the yields john it's not necessarily a pat on the back for our policies well it's obviously welcome that we don't borrow it or that it doesn't cost us as much to borrow we're still going quite

a bit and at the end of the day i don't think necessarily it's an indicator that we're in route health it's more of an indicator that what's happening to us at the moment is laura laura evidence of the international financial or currency that say that short term things i look at four or five kind of if somebody asked me where i'm going to take asia and europe i want to lock in some euro's now what should i look at i'm going to you know so what do i look i think short term phenomenon like what's in the news market positioning ok is there going in august i want to today is yes but what about for the long term your company and you and you make a bargain machine tool you know going to go for two years from now and it's based on your you know what you project to five years from now so you've got a longer term time frame rate so what do you look at so i look at century two things one is purchasing power parity which is it's right it's like a basic form a third of the economist magazine did. big thing with a big mac and a big mac. should cost you where you go to sell for the same price to the extent that it

doesn't when you make the currency conversion tell you some currency is out of whack ok so we look for is there between the value and the price can stretch to the major to. how far someone can deviate from its true value being the big. and so the major countries o.e.c.d. countries and the currencies often move in about a twenty percent band around purchasing power parity ok but some currencies like you say like like swiss franc no region clone right now yes very very overvalued like thirty or forty percent so that tells us either something is wrong with our model purchasing power parity and you can get more complicated with it than the big mac. right right or it's telling us that it's like seriously overvalued is not something to be done yet so one of the swiss studies they said we're not going to let our currency appreciate over this level and so they haven't had to intervene recently in the past even intervene a lot right to defend defend their ceiling for their currency. and there you go

highlights from the best of the best this past week time now for us to hear from you. interest and with that we're here as always we do this every friday and harrison and i put you the viewer into the driver seat letting you steer the show with your comments questions and concerns all centers throughout the week twitter you tube and facebook let's dive right in and start with brucey b. i like that name now customers have more money if minimum wage is raised period question. where does a small business operator get the extra money to pay the minimum wage raise to begin with the only way would be to have a wage subsidy from government which means higher taxation ed thoughts on this higher taxation is that what that means no fellas of composition basically what

happens is like that you know. when more people have more money that means they spend more especially if people in minimum wage jobs are they have a higher marginal propensity to spend that means more of that money goes back into the economy so ultimately that means that if they were making eight dollars an hour another making ten dollars an hour there's an extra two dollars an hour per employee that's actually going to go into the economy if they were to spend all of that extra money in the economy right in the small business owner they take up on our woes have more kick ups old cupcakes old kick up kicks sold and have more money . the problem of course is that maybe that specific small business owner is not going to have more so you know maybe. there will be more. there will be more. c.v.s. that's bought and so it is going to have an impact in terms of so. businesses are

going to be impacted but they're on our move right on michael mclaughlin he writes in that quote i would rather have the good kind of deflation because the same amount of currency is chasing an increased amount of goods rather than people having incentives to save money in a late game kensi an environment that revives on ever increasing velocity of money and thoughts a good kind of deflation yes or no would you prefer to have you know this whole philosophy of money i never really think about velocity of money because to me it's a meaningless concept given the. positive velocity has you know that's a term that people use for the top of the money multiplier but at the bottom of the bottom on it is that when you have deflation you have debt deflation dynamics that can take over we just drop people they put off their spending and they spend less debt becomes more onerous people are it's been a success or a sort of like spirals that it's all so it's not just the fact that you have good to fleece in that sense the only good deflation you can get is really from

increased productivity and that's when prices go down from the i think that general to pollution is not a good thing they have and i want to get to number three this comes from tina sullivan three percent or she tweeted that she is not happy with us and she writes . in a that edward n.h. i can't believe you would even allow kaplan time to spew his disdain for mission propaganda saying that lobbyist does no harm but loney exclamation point there are two point three lobbyist for every politician in d.c. there to curry favor from the corporate for politicians i am seeing a serious shift in our chile you are pandering to the wrong side shame on you r t ok first i'd like to say that we aren't pandering to the wrong side because we are pandering to any side and the very fact that she wrote her pandering to the wrong side is evidence that we are pandering to either one i mean you want us to actually pursue the other agenda that's not good journalism that's not how we'd like to report it and so i will remove the city more you said it perfectly that's exactly and by what we're reporting i think that it's pretty solid that's. it's four and

finally one of our frequent comments from some commenters how we're going to rights moving profits overseas is simply one of the many tactics corporations employ to maximize shareholder value as you say ed ok so you take money away from a corporation via taxation and what happens less dividends for shareholders higher prices for customers who corporations care about they care about their shareholders and the customers it's natural to want to protect your allies against rapacious enemy thoughts well you know just because you actually have taken money away from the company doesn't mean that they're going to pay that cost on to. the customers but at the end of the day what it boils down to is that when you are a corporation you've incorporated in order to gain benefits from that status from incorporated that you wouldn't be able to get if you were an individual and those that status needs to be taxed like any other legal person. you know legal persons that are individuals or businesses should be taxed as well the concept should

somehow be taxed because of double taxation doesn't make any sense to me and i think it creates an unfair advantage for those who can cooperate and gain their wealth through that particular structure of incorporation i think you have an taxation is a big issue we're dealing here back on that and more on it but i like your opinion that's all for now but you can see all segments featured in today's show on you tube dot com slash boom bust our team we love hearing from you please check out our facebook page facebook dot com slash boom bust our teeth please tweet us at edward and it's from all of us here thank you for watching see you next time check out.

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on larry king now we close out the show really with the creator of the vampire diaries julian plug that has to be in the mix because if you don't have a death at that that have you had a read that you're not there's mistakes all four of them you know. at the beginning of the year you think you know everything by the end of the year you know nothing and pretend you're not making some of it up as you go along and sometimes you're a liar plus the brains behind the walking dead executive producer scott gimple there's so much noise we have in our lives and to feel something deeply even fear. is a treat plus are you very hands on it's pretty hands on i almost know hanzi but that's different all next on larry king now.

well the larry king our special guests julie plec the executive producer co-creator of the hit t.v. series the vampire diaries road currently in its third season on the c.w. that's there's an eight pm also executive producer of two freshman series on the c.w. the originals that airs on tuesdays at eight and the tomorrow people which recently relocated to monday nights at nine how do you know where you wall i've lost track completely to say this was me belgium yeah i mean how do you juggle three shows well i have a really really solid team in place you know vampire diaries is in its fifth year so over the five years we've been able to work a group of people up to the point where they actually can do a lot of it on their own and some of it better than i ever could so that helps but what if you want to be when you were a kid you know in no particular order i wanted to be

a professional tennis player even though i was wildly mediocre at playing tennis and then when i came to terms with that i wanted to be. a news anchor woman leave it or not and then i think there was a flight attendant fantasy in there somewhere way from i'm from outside of chicago in the suburbs of chicago as you did to meet wes craven how did you get into television well i moved out of here but i moved out to los angeles after graduation i went to northwestern and i left chicago in september about exactly twenty years ago this september and i had no idea how to get a job just knew i wanted to work and retain a business and make movies are tell stories and so i just started looking through the want ads in the holiday reporter and hoping for the best i'm and got a job as an agency assistant three weeks of the day after i moved to town and everything kind of just joined double with wes craven west so beautifully enough his assistant at the time was a woman who. now interestingly my agent but at the time was his assistant and she

went to college with my cousin also northwestern so the whole mafia thing going there and i was helping her sell tickets to an improv show that she was producing and she said oh you sell tickets really well you want to be an assistant to a director and i said well i don't want to direct and i don't know if i even like horror movies very much but yes i do and so she brought me and i met wes and his partner marianne and it began from then that's why then you made vampire diaries called kevin williamson that's kevin wrote scream which was originally titled scary movie and he came into the office after after we decided to do it after west decided to direct it and he and i became instantly friends it was his first script that was getting made it was my first movie and that i'd ever worked on and then. kevin i gosh seven years six years ago i guess now we're having lunch with a friend of ours woman in general so who was an executive at the c.w.

who used to be kevin's assistant back when i worked with kevin and and she we were just talking about twilight about vampires and and the genre itself and she said hey we've got these books do you guys want to do him and we've said yes and then she went made the deal and it was done and over the right away over lunch. for me business share it's very tomorrow big it was a follow up to the what is it the tomorrow people is actually a remake of a b.b.c. series from the seventy's and and it's something that i watched as a kid and the clarion back in the day. you know it's about young adults who have supernatural abilities they have they're the next wave of human evolution and they can teleport. use telekinesis to follow shoes that was already is it isn't it isn't you've got a built in fan base that you know is willing to come check out make sure you don't screw up their you know their beloved show and then there's also that sense of you know how much freedom do you have to make a. and has nothing about your background really northwestern everything would say

this is a woman interested in the supernatural church so. well you know i genuinely didn't believe i was interested in the supernatural until i really thought about my upbringing as and i was a big reader pretty much from the time i was in first grade all the way through high school i was always the one that was had the stephen king book you know talk to my friends or hang around i was tucked into bed in this one but yeah so i did a number called interest in the interest in yes in a cabin in the in the in the sort of true to life frightening even though the circumstances are extreme and extraordinary the the context for it is very human a very human story of a woman whose dog goes rabid and she's trapped in the car like cujo you know that was really just about a woman trying to protect all games on a watch on the page where you can't be there are you in a man's world well i think that the beauty especially for television is that you say executive producer now and the first couple names that come up off your head

are women and so that's where the show up to i love shonda rhimes a huge fan of scandal and i was a huge fan of grey's anatomy and she's just a force you like to turn the show on or i do because that's exactly what it is that we're doing you run the show we're the captains of the ship keep the train on the tracks you have a favorite character that i did that i love all my children equally but i do particularly love the character of caroline who's sort of a girl that found her way by becoming a vampire used to be a bill lemme see what does an executive producer. the answer to that is everything everything and anything and learning the power to delegate i think is the number one on the top of the mail girl has a problem come see you yeah. well usually i can find somebody that can handle the mail girl but. but everything else costume fittings music editing you know being on

set when you can rewriting writing breaking the story all of it it definitely it's equal parts storytelling management and producing not all three of which everybody is good at you know the toughest people to find. really good writers. it comes down to that it comes down to a voice and a point of view and the ability to sparkle on the page and some people are great at action but can write dialogue some people write the best dialogue but can't tell a good story and finding somebody that can really hit everything is really rare and a really beautiful thing it's three shows going to happen around the world good day i work my day with whatever needs my attention the most the tomorrow people should send vancouver and it has a tremendous team in place that does most of the day to day if not all the day to day work and so i'm there it's kind of a helper call me if you get in trouble come if you need something kind of presence

the other two we share an office we share kitchen and i just go bounce from room to room and say ok what are we doing what's happening today i want to. punch in shows what's going to have on them but it was anything cool people die people are dying no. they always die but there are a lot of them this year are and danger and at risk more than ever. this cannot expect a lifelong part but they have to be really really nice to have the originals the originals the entire fate of the french quarter and the supernatural regime that exists within it is all up in arms because everybody that wants a piece of it is coming at it hard and betraying everyone else left right and center and so there's a big battle for new orleans coming in the tomorrow people of tomorrow people is all about who's who's on the right side of the of of the good people who's a liar who's a manipulator and ultimately you know getting us to the point are these people going to survive as one or they're going to be at war with each other for you know . at the beginning of the year you think you know everything by the end of the year

you know nothing and you pretend you're not making some of it up as you go along and sometimes you're a liar when you get in the morning when you go first i want to get in the morning i go to vampire originals office and i have a dose of caffeine and i had the ground running mostly i'm sure one story over and over you know i'm. emotionally attached to the emotional stories and so whichever show is telling a stronger emotional through line at the moment is the one that i know i get giggly and always a little something new. always thinking about executive producer for sure yes you do i have this weird dream of being a fixer i'd like to be a fixer i'd like to be the person that people call in and say we're dying the ship is sinking please come the days of broadway yeah we have an interview to do that obviously we have fans reactions and therefore she changes story they can impact how you feel about a story and then you have to work very hard to not change course just because of

the fan response because you don't know you don't know the legitimacy of the volume of feedback that you're getting you don't know if it's one person tweeting you from eight hundred names or if you are truly people or that upset you the funds then that work final say in the sense that i'm very respectful of the networks and the studios wishes and they are very respectful they trust me so it's actually really good relationship because they'll say what you think about this and i'll say well here's why we're doing it this way and they said great fine there's no one of the world to be pensioned you now now i mean if they they will respectfully say hey we're not crazy about this moment or do you mind changing the sign and we do usually but it's never been a mandate how do you know when you want to slag the spin of the originals honeymoon when you want to be a spinoff. it's you know a spinoff is always the riskiest thing you can do because you do you risk diluting the impact of the mothership you know the vampire diaries which we never want to do anything to hurt that and they also risk the audience not being as engaged in this case of the originals we had three characters that had been on the vampire diaries

as a family for two and a half years so we knew how good they were and how powerful they were and how much audience liked them so we felt pretty confident now i'm told that fans of the original got a big shock when rebecca played by claire hole left yes why did you do that yes well according to somebody on the internet. i personally fired her which is of course not true she had a limited contract when she agreed to do the series she had already played the role for several years and didn't want to sign on for a whole six year contract which is what everybody else has to do and so we all agreed that we would give her the best best run that we possibly could until she was done your thin line here in the bam pursers you don't want to kill off someone right popular rights but one of the keys to the success is to kill off all of your people so are you always going to a dichotomy yes absolutely it's you can fall in love with an actor and fall out of love with your character very easily and the reverse the worst is when you fall out

of love with the actor but the character still valuable because then there's not much you can do there but death has to be in the mix because it has to be a life or death stakes show and to be able to kill people even people that the fans like and get angry with you about if you do if you don't have death at the at that heavy and red then then you're not there's no stakes indiana jones will weekly series and you kill a person ford would be a little weird but those are decisions you have to make right yeah the best thing you can do is not name the show after you or any of your characters. we said on day one of the vampire diaries to see you know it's called the vampire diaries not a lane of show you know so there's always that threat you get very close with. i do i you know i got a great piece of advice from big time showrunner a few years back he said let me tell you one thing that you should never do never become friends with your cast because it's so awful watching them turn into monsters but it is so heartbreaking when it happens and i said good advice and i

tried very hard to not but it's inevitable jane years from now where the affection i mean there are six or i'm a host on the view or writing an adult novels in hawaii or spinning around somewhere they are just. thank you julie plec may she watch the. vampire diaries the originals and the tomorrow people whatever else she comes up with all on this ng w. and check out my blog at kings things or adoptee be here julie's answers to your social media questions not so i'm joined by the executive producer of the walking dead stop state soon. will you. please technology innovation called in these developments from around russia we've got the future of covered.

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they're still lined up. on. line. welcome to larry king our special guest is scott gimple he started his career with matt groening is a bug in the comics he wrote an edited simpsons comics before writing for t.v. shows such as dr life and flash forward he joined amcs the walking dead in two thousand and eleven he's currently does that give producer and show runner the smash hits for the season finale had a record fifteen point seven million viewers explained that why is the walking dead attracting fifteen million people. i would say there's nothing like it on

television. i would say it's a character driven show and in that show i think one of the main questions that people ask when they watch it is what would i do what would i do in this situation there are more moral choices there are a lot of strange practical choices you have to make and ultimately i think it is about maintaining your humanity in an inhumane world and how difficult that is and i think that's ultimately an extremely hopeful thing these revolutionary. evolutionary over at evolutionary i think it's evolutionary it's the evolutionary it's the evolution of both zombie movies and television and i think it's revolutionary in that robert kirkman thought of an idea that i think can be simply said what about his zombie movie that never ended why we're fascinated with all of it i think is for is this for zombies go or horror or ghouls while we fasten it

with bow i think that comes down to just feeling something i think we're busy people and we have death. and all that but i think there's also just made me feel something you know there's so much noise we have in our lives and to feel something deeply even fear. is a treat for you start as co-producing writer and now your show scholem's five a new name in show business is the last ten years i mean it was always there but the last ten years you know the audience has become so savvy that show runners something that everybody knows now and they know the people who did do it and it's an incredible thing but i don't know that i heard in four years. why do they show why are they changing over i think it's it's a difficult show i think it was based on just places where my former bosses were. and. you know. they've all they've

both moved on to really cool things is there something specific that most are as a left their fingerprints on a you worked under both are right and yeah different well you know it's funny i think my style is kind of an amalgamation of like the greatest hits that we've done . there's things that frank did that are just indelible in the show there's influences that glenn had that absolutely remained to this day and i treat to try to take the best of both of them i worked under both of them and just keep it going a lot of pressure because the show is so popular you know it's funny i think any show there's a great deal of pressure if you want to do a great job and especially if you have an amazing crew and amazing cast amazing producers and then these unbelievable fans you just don't want to let them down with something that is sub par or you very hands on pretty hands on i almost know

hanzi but that's different what's a day in your life like but do you get up and where do you go i'd say one of the best things about being a show runner. for someone like me who has a.d.d. is that it's different every day sometimes i'm in l.a. where we write and it sometimes i'm in atlanta where we shoot. that it's actually the time of year that's what changes the first third of the year or of our season we're writing yeah and we're just we're just in the writing phase right now and the preproduction and next month production starts and then you layer something on top of the writing because you're still there and then post-production starts and on this show you have editorial but also unbelievable special effects it's a great deal of work you layer that on top and there's this period right in the middle where you're doing writing you're doing production you're doing post-production that's the most intense time and then each part. sort of falls away

and you're on top of all of i am i am i try to be who you answer to the fans first. and then the network and see if you did something interesting i understand with the second half of the season your main character or grimes was in featured a lot while him well it is a deliberate write well it was it wasn't deliberate is much as i go let's see rick less it was both driven by the plot by the circumstance they had but also an opportunity to play out all of the members of this ensembles individual stories and to deepen our relation to them even more. i didn't like having to go away from it so much but also the circumstances of the story that we were telling sort of demanded it and i still think we were able to tell a very satisfying story for rick but also for the rest of the characters in season five is this fall really

a process of that yeah we're just well we're well away in the writing and it will start shooting next month can you tell us anything just something scott come on with being so nice to you give us some tips in the upcoming season like to have been midnight in the old days on radio would give us a clue next day's entry and well i would say this the show every eight episodes reinvents itself like this last half season we focused on all these different characters before that there was a different structure we had a couple of different big stories crashed together so what good a couple of words will you give us about season five just action. intensity. they'll still be the character stuff there but the balance is going to be a little different and more action than usual the story that we're telling demands that we're not going to shy away from character but the balance will be a little more towards action and he laughs yes absolutely we are represented i want

to represent the whole of human experience i don't want to show just war in misery because if you just do that it doesn't mean anything you need the late you need humanity you need love you need friendship because those are the things that you're trying to maintain amidst these or and when you win that makes the victories that much more sweet but when you lose that makes things that much more dark you start in comic books as as you know i started as an intern even in college actually i interned for marvel comics and then i desperately wanted to get into comics and one of the main companies out here was matt graining spangle comics all the simpsons comics and i interned there while i was working a job to support myself and i eventually became an assistant editor but i moved in animation actually after after bank of comics i started working for disney and i ventured made my own cartoon there and that was my first show running experience was a cartoon i made for disney back to the walking dead you have

a high death toll yes who makes do you make the decision on who dies i do and it's it's not easy but it's all about serving the story ever regret killing a beloved person i think i always regret killing the other president regret killing a hated person. not if it serves the story not an end to tell you the truth and say this. i want most characters that die on the show most of them not all of them because there are villains i want the audience to love them i want them to to feel when they die and even when the governor died who was a character who was a villain he flirted with humanity he only most made it and he died when he decided to turn away from humanity it must be tough for actors you can sign an actor on for three years guaranteed on this show tell you it's sort of a year to year thing first the they don't know when they're going to go can only

interview a character once a vegetable the next week i will say lauren coherent who plays maggie i think has the best sort of perspective on it she believes that this show helps her live in the moment and enjoy every moment because it is a very enjoyable set it's an incredible crew it's a very tight knit cast that's one of the hardest things about dying on this show isn't necessarily a job all these people have found great work after leaving the show but the show is a very special thing you know not of. ok has amc ever said no to a script now not that i know of. we you know they're a network they have notes but it's never been know to a script. any thought of a spin off there is a spinoff in the works i'm not involved because this is a very very demanding show robert kirkman who created the comic is co-creating that up i think i believe he's creating that show with a very talented writer dave erickson you know they're going to call it i'm you know

i don't but i i'm smart enough to know that the walking dead will be in the title do you know how the show's going to end. you know it's funny the comic book continues to this day the comic book of the show is based upon their issue one twenty four five comes out i'm sort of ahead to get him early and. robert said he's going to go at least three hundred issues so it's kind of a strange thing i read the comic every month every month or bi monthly occasionally comes out as a fan zone yeah i'd tell him not to spoil things for me has in the past i really got angry at him so. i read the comics a fan in the week i think ok how does this lead to the greatest greater story i will say from an emotional standpoint i do have an ending in mind but i wanted to see us with the work that robert said as a comic fan what do you think of family guy. well i think the bigger question is as

a simpsons fan what do i think of family guy because that's like it's you know that's like ohio state and michigan. family guy takes more risks assumes well i'll let's not get an argument here you know in iowa i would say that family guy the thing that's revolutionary about the revolutionary about family guy is seth's timing he's a genius the what he does with his voice and the timing that he doesn't believe i'll tell you this i started man a mission with mr seth macfarlane he was my story editor on ace ventura pet detective the animated series and he would call me pretending to be the producers of the show doing the voice of the producers of the show making very absurd requests of which i would fall on a family guy takes more risks than some some i'm definitely not going to agree with that why would my wife say it's ok for the kids to watch the simpsons and family

guy i'll say this oh man you put me on the spot oh yeah i got a visit here i was famous i had a tube best animated shows on top i would say this. there is something about the simpsons that is based in heart and humanity and family and i would say i'm a guy not i would say family guy is more of a hard satire of american life and it's a little more service and there is sweetness in family guy i don't want to say that but i would say this the simpsons a sweeter you give not a salute we thank you so much man oh nothing. you this was amazing literally well i want to thank my guests the show runner start em gamble if you are watching the walking dead on amc a one of the very few people look for more throws in season five and you can go to my blog at kings things dot or a dog to be here scott senses to your social media questions let me have them find

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happy friday on abby martin and this is breaking in a set so yesterday's saw one of the most significant victories for american workers in years seattle mayor ed murray announced it had struck a deal with city politicians business leaders and labor groups to raise the city's minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour if the measure passes city council as expected will make the minimum wage in the emerald city the highest in the entire country and it's important to note that this increase will be gradual businesses with more than five hundred employees will have three years to meet the wage standard while smaller ones while all the way up until twenty twenty one but once in effect the minimum wage will automatically increase two point four percent every year regardless of the inflation rate and this is what i have not been possible without seattle city council member sharma so want who has made the fight for fifteen the central tenant of her time in office two weeks ago she appeared on the show to discuss why this battle is so important. if you don't

a minimum wage increase it has been beneficial to the logo they go on to me because when little wage workers get a little bit of spending money in your pocket they go to spend a little bit of because they don't have the money to fly off about it for a vacation so you not only do minimum wage increases improve local economies the practice is good for the businesses themselves study after study has shown that increased wages lead to less job turnover and higher productivity among employees not to mention the billions of dollars that would be saved in social service spending in fact a study published by the center for american progress found increasing the federal minimum wage from a pathetically low seven twenty five an hour to ten dollars and ten cents would cut food stamp spending by four point six billion. in dollars a year and the growing amount of pressure on multinational corporations that refuse to pay their workers a living wage is leading to major momentum all across the country just this year connecticut maryland and hawaii all passed minimum wage increases to ten ten an

hour so even though there's still a long way to go to ensure that every person can make a respectable living out their profession today we can stand in solidarity with workers all across america now let's break the set. please they are very hard to take a. trip. like that you better act with that right there. please. please. please please. please.

two days ago a train derailment in lynchburg virginia dumped fifty thousand gallons of crude oil into the james river the images you're seeing now are of the james river completely engulfed in flames the massive fire prompted a partial evacuation of downtown lynchburg and led to the shutdown of nearby roads and a bridge about fifteen train cars derailed three of which caught on fire but luckily there were no deaths or injuries at this disaster wasn't bad enough an oil slick now stretches nine miles down the river cording to a virginia environmental office this is the fourth accident of its kind in less than one year and while there haven't been any reports of the spill directly affecting drinking water yet the full extent of the environmental impact is yet to be seen and get this see as x. the same company that was responsible for the spill in virginia had another derailment less than twenty four hours later in neighboring maryland but this time

the train cars were carrying eight thousand tons of coal before they went off the tracks great national transportation safety board is still investigating both crashes which clearly underscore the dangers of moving these fields across the country by. i rail as well as the poor oversight and blatant negligence when it comes to the deteriorating infrastructure of rail transport it's no secret either according to federal government data there was more oil spilled from train crashes in two thousand and thirteen than in the previous four decades come binding think about that for one second while over one million gallons of crude oil spilled from derailed train cars across the country just and twenty thirteen yet rail remains the number one preferred mode of transportation for oil companies that's not the only way oil is being moved hundreds of thousands of miles worth of pipelines traverse the length of the u.s. creating a massive potential for environmental and human disasters but if you're sitting there thinking oil spills are rare according to lisa p. jackson the former e.p.a.

administrator approximately twenty thousand reported each year to the federal government that's fifty four spills every single day occurrence somewhere in the u.s. and what didn't you know it just this week a pipeline and alaska was punctured yet another to blame b p my favorite corporation to blame for covering thirty three acres of some of the most pristine land in the arctic with a quote oily talk sick mist of chemicals. but of course the story doesn't end there the pipeline spill is actually the third time b.p. has poisoned the precious alaskan tundra and what lands before this week the corporation responsible for a spill in two thousand and six and another in two thousand and nine which spewed somewhere around fourteen thousand gallons of oil following the two thousand and nine spill u.s. government attorneys stated quote this rupture was the result of a predictable and preventable freezing of water within the pipeline that caused the

pipe to overpressure rise and burst early similar to the two thousand and six spill b.p. ignored alarms that warn that the pipes eventual rupture and leak. i'm a shock to b.p. ignored red flags that eventually lead to a widespread disaster it couldn't be so once again it's negligence at fault for putting profit over the planet the most importantly it should be noted that the more we transport oil and coal by rail or pipeline more these accidents will continue the more lives we put in harm's way and the more environmental destruction will occur and all these disturbing stories go to show that no matter what the dirty energy lobby claims transporting crude and cold by any method is far from safe so even if environmental activists win the battle and prevent the keystone x.l. pipeline from being built we cannot let up in the fight against these hazardous and destructive energy sources because in the end the powers that be will stop at

nothing in order to transport their toxic sludge all over the world i. i. luckily for the corporate media after a week of nonstop coverage of ignorant vow to rancher clive and bundy a new race this villain emerged to take over the spotlight donald sterling owner of the l.a. clippers basketball team was recorded telling his girlfriend slash mistress not to publicize pictures of herself with black people nor bring them to the games despite the fact that his team is nearly entirely made up of african-americans of course has leaked comments unleashed a media firestorm over network from m s n b c to fox hosting panels on race in america and unsurprisingly they miss the point as the donald sterling's comments were vile but the real issue concerning race in america is a structural problem for example take a look at the n.b.a.

beyond donald sort of these comments were in a five thirty eight in two thousand and thirteen seventy six point three percent of n.b.a. players were african-american compared with just two percent of the league's majority . owners in fact michael jordan is the league's only black owner sounds like the n.b.a. has a race problem but alas expecting the mainstream media to delve in the real issues of race in america even within the n.b.a. would be far too complicated and said we should all be shocked that yet another old white man is making ignorant comments one hundred twenty nine to talk about some of this week's craziest stories as well as what else the m.s.m. missed attorney nationally syndicated radio co-host of ring of fire mike papantonio thank you so much for coming on an amazing to have you on so the public's outrage and of course the media's outrage of donald sterling sure warranted however they've gone to a fever pitch and i can't help but ask why not any feigned outrage at least in this very least over structural institutionalized racism like stop and frisk the president does feel complex the media loves to talk about the idea of big ideas are

called media. understand the sterling stories a great example yesterday the sterling story was about racism today it's about who leaked the information it's the nature of mainstream or corporate media and you know if you think about it they have a big advantage of moving that story every every every day and that's what's imagine if they spent as much time to c.n.n. for example we've been looking for the plane it's a terrible tragedy but what if see it in that same power that same influence and paid attention to issues is important race truth is there advertisers don't want to do it and so they move on from it right absolutely and speaking of lunatics i guess i should even be surprised at this but i wanted to play our audience a clip from sarah palin to get your thoughts of the r. and r. is stand and fight rally let's check it out. if i were in charge.

i would know why. is how we baptized here. i mean what's the most amazing is that after making his comments her own evangelical base was so upset for be smirched that sacred right about the hell were her motivations or should i even be asking that about someone like sarah palin crazy is an industry understand these sarah palin makes a lot of money absolutely going after the small fringe of crazy just like rush does and does all of them become millionaires by playing that crazy card and they've got it down to real science she know she can do certain things and get away with the baptism thing that will be forgotten the more you'll still buy or blue her books will still show up for her speeches because crazy is a big industry in america right now you're absolutely right and only her only in america could you see someone like that even being considered

a legitimate politician getting to the point where she actually but the vice president states on believable mike on a more serious now you've been covering a lot on your show rising c.e.o. pay this is very disturbing for the first time in history the ten highest paid at u.s.c. is took home more than one hundred million dollars in compensation and he quality is the highest in america a growing faster america than any other country how did we get to this point you talk on your show a good bit about the notion of colonialism that is what what's happened united states is we've gives we've become one of those clothing all nations we used to go overseas and we would go to africa and south america and we would build colonies in those places extract from those places now what's happening it's happening right here in the united states we are now that new target and we're so naive about what's happening we don't even recognize that these. corporations are coming like locusts here and they want to pay their people big money they want to pay them more than they make in europe and asia so to become

a colonial nation you have to pay the people that are making that happen and that's what's happening to we want to think we're above all that we want to think that something we did to somebody else but now if you can imagine it's just like locusts moving around the planet right now right now the corporate locusts are right here and they they're calling the shots right where can they get the best tax havens where can exploit workers the best and here in america it's a pretty good deal for corporate c.e.o.'s speaking of ridiculous salaries as an attorney you said something very important. and i want to repeat that for our audience seventy percent of kids coming out of law school want to represent corporations and get paid an exorbitant amount of money to do so they're willing to sell their souls of the highest bidder how do we convince those people in law supposed to abide by their conscience like you did it's become a need to know profession it used to be when you were coming through the humanities you're coming through the wall whatever the course whether it's political science you had to think about things like important ideas i remember the person that

convinced me most to go to law school was probably one of the best trial lawyers in america probably since clarence darrow and i met him in his house i said mr nichols what do you think distinguished you is a great lawyer he had books on him steinbeck comrade kafka you name it all the great works were right there he says you know what there are no great ideas there these are my ideas my ideas are not the great ideas they're all in those books and i've borrowed them and what he also said is that made me into the person that that shaped me when i read steinbeck's grapes of wrath that shaped who i am and so i don't think you have with a need to know kind of education you simply don't get that right now how do you feel about g.w. now introducing lobbying as a major where all the young karl roves in d.c. can just streamline their careers and go straight to the lobby well that's exactly what's hap. but to get there abbie you have to have the same kind of education that you had or that i had you have to have parents that paid attention to you and said

listen these ideas are important this is what you ought to be thinking about but when you're taken f. cats and you're taken as a teenager taken l.s.a.t. and all that all you have to know is need to know information you don't have to think about big ideas you don't have to wonder why on the hill john steinbeck wrote like he did that people are oppressed and we should do something about it and unfortunately in law school you know that's just not out there the number of trial lawyers that really pay attention to this is dwindling so important thank you so much my comment on an attorney carlos ring of fire amazing to have you on really appreciate it thank you. coming up you guys i have an exclusive interview with two guys who are crashing meetings with top lobbyist and contractors and getting away with it stick around. old. technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia. the future of covered.

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can you imagine if someone from the department of energy made an announcement by the year twenty thirty the u.s. would be one hundred percent dependent on renewable energy and not only that the partner with native american nations to supply the sources believe it or not this actually happened but it sounds too good to be true that's probably because it is saying this is just the latest elaborate prank orchestrated by the activist group the yes ma'am. on the house of the department of energy i'm very excited to announce today a great new plan it's beginning a process that will do nothing less than convert the united states energy grid into one that's powered entirely by renewable sources by twenty thirty america will produce one hundred percent of our energy from renewables establishing us once

again as a beacon of innovation and progress and as a global leader in confronting the supreme challenge of climate change. yes at a meeting of the homeland security congress dozens of military contractors and lobbyists were hoodwinked into believing a fictitious new government plan called the american renewable clean energy network benedict waterman the man you just saw speaking was actually andy bichel bomb of the yes men and his talk was followed up by another impassioned speech from someone calling themselves ban a slow worse of the bureau of indian affairs who is actually gets crazy boy and indigenous tar sands activist following these talks crazy way past that made of a headband led the attendees of the conference into a celebratory circle dance but if the dance was the whole various enough the contractors then lined up to gush about how excited they were about the conversion into renewables. of the structure also part of northrop grumman were a large business but very interested in sports now it's fantastic so it's

a very you know this is. a really good very emotional. yes that was a contractor from northrop grumman expressing extreme enthusiasm for the project but this type of stunt fits in the common tactics the yes men used to draw attention to political issues and social and justices they operate under the mission statement that lies and expose truth the men have done everything from personate how will burn to the world trade organization and i'm very happy to have mike but not of the yes man and gets crazy boy join me now from new york amazing to have you both on. thank you very much well to be on mike i want to start by asking you what the hell was this meeting all about and were you surprised that someone from northrop grumman supported your plan for renewable energy. well this meeting is like many that bring together government and defense contractors to try to create corporate welfare to support the defense industry it's crazy it's

a place where defense contractors simply try to get money and the idea is that this is somehow involved in our security you know homeland security is the topic but in reality it's anything but concern with our security because if we were actually concerned about security we'd be dealing with things like climate change and dealing with the problem proactively not doing what they're doing which is simply trying to peddle weapons right yeah i mean that's not a surprise i guess to see some of northrop grumman acting so excited about weapons you're talking about renewables we're you know surprisingly enough most people are not mega maniacally insane. people who work for northrop grumman and if they're given the opportunity to do what they actually believe in their hearts is the right thing they go with it it's just a few oil industry lobbyists that actually think that it's a good idea i mean it's not even the lobbyist it's the oil industry that's pushing our governments to prevent us from doing what we need to do to deal with this

crisis and that is a really big crime. without giving away any of your personal tactics get and personated some of the department of energy you claim to be from the bureau of indian affairs how do you convince people that you're actually govern officials. it's not too hard i mean there's this weird romanticized view that america has on native people so you throw a ball or a feather and next thing you know you're spending like ten thousand dollars in arizona for some shaman to teach out to be a native so wasn't it too hard to fool some people to believing i was part of the. oh my gosh it's amazing you know mike why did you choose to draw attention to renewable energy with this done and how attainable what the plan you proposed actually. well the plan that was proposed is actually based on real plans and there are there is an article in scientific american very recently that outlined converting to renewables and thirteen years there are other plans that are

out there many other plans and actually twenty thirty is not that ambitious a number there are entire countries right now that are on target to convert by two thousand and twenty and of course even some very large industrialized countries are so on target for twenty thirty so it wouldn't be that crazy for the united states to say we've done really big things before we could do something this big now right get considering the fact that indigenous communities have been virtually ignored by pretty much every government in the treaties they've been violated for years what was your reaction to people actually believing that this partnership was real i mean how out of touch are these people. i don't know if it's really out of touch but i mean if you give people if you give if you have people to dream now what can come from that if they have actually behind it what could you do if you give the incentive to people that there is a better way and we all know that we're barreling down this this road of a loss of species climate change you know big catastrophic events the weather

patterns are out of here no one can say for sure if they're going to be new america's pastime or if they're just going to something that's just quickly passing but what was important for us was just to help them realize the stream they have the ambition they really actually want a beautiful healthy change for all of us. yeah you're absolutely right it's important humanize these people and realize that not no one's. really bad i mean if the political establishment basically said we do want to do this i'm sure everyone would jump on board and say great let's save the planet mike i want to go back and talk about some of the other things the yes man has done let's take a look at and posing as a spokesperson for dow chemicals on the b.b.c. on the anniversary of the bhopal chemical disaster. twenty years since the disaster and today i'm very very happy to announce that for the first time doe is accepting full responsibility for the bhopal catastrophe we have a twelve billion dollars plan to finally at long last fully compensate the victims

including the one hundred twenty thousand who may need medical care for their entire lives and you know that would have been a howard beal moment if only it were true and it was at the time what prompted the yesmen to take on down specifically. well dow had created the largest industrial accident in history actually it was union carbide but union carbide acquired and when they acquired out many people argue that they acquired their liabilities as well as their assets but down claimed that in india they didn't get any of their liabilities that the liabilities had been settled by union carbide despite the fact that there were hundreds of thousands of people who had never gotten adequate compensation and the bhopal plant site the site of the largest industrial accident in history had never been cleaned up it hadn't been remediated and now there was a second wave another generation of children that were getting sick because of the

water contamination on that site and so we did it because we were asked actually by activists there and greenpeace to do something about that to try to get people to realise that it was down there was now responsible for that legacy gets you know the yes man constantly targets groups that favor profit over people pranking keep e.p.a. negotiations the world trade organization meeting why go after these groups. they have some plan they have some hand in playing all this you know there's some influence. and also allows us opportunities like this to be sitting here to talk to you about massive devastation that's happening in northern alberta with the tar sands extraction and development induction development up there you know it loves us to say something like that with so tins who are camping out right now they're living right now in the heart of the enbridge pipeline proposed and bridge pipeline

that are adamant about not moving that is their homeland only to defend it allows us to do to voice these things you know to do an action like that or a stunt and to grab some of that attention and actually redirect it in a really positive way is super important i believe that's why you know we do these things absolutely mike why does the t.p. need to help with the yes men to be exposed. well the tepee is one of these crazy bureaucratic proposals that in the end is designed to privilege profit over everything else we've got or start fighting the world trade organization policies that these new neo liberal policies that were being applied religiously across the board no matter what impact they had on people on the ground and we started out you to attack trade policies these bureaucratic things that are very hard to understand for a lay person but that if you look at them are very dangerous and the people and the environment absolutely six hundred plus corporate advisors negotiations constantly

in secret i'm really happy you guys did that stunt shedding some light on this i wanted to take a look at probably the most absurd stuff in the u.s. and i don't think we have time to actually play this clip but the how of burton survival ball i just heard that we do have time let's check it out. this is the answer this is the how the burton survival ball. it's three easy steps for deployment suiting up inflating and of course launching launching out of a building and we have an artist's rendition of what it might be like in houston when you launch our survival waltz. i want to double question here what was the message you're trying to convey with the creation of the ball and i think people are so frustrated what advice do you give to people who want to disrupt the corporatocracy we have about a minute left well the survivable is about the absurdity of the system that we're living in and of the idea that we can survive climate change by simply fortifying

our borders or creating these little bubbles that we can live and we cannot escape this thing we're in it together and we have to deal with it together and people like gets to come from ground zero the tar sands his whole land and culture are being destroyed by this industry and they know and they understand and it hasn't hit us as strong at but it will soon and that's what this is all about it's all about talking about that and approaching it in a way that's funny and engage absolutely you guys thank you so much mike bonheur. sorry gets crazy away from the yes man amazing to have you guys on. that's our show you guys have a great weekend next week and i break the fat all over again. the

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i suspect. over the if you. did you know the press is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy. to make you know i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on and we go beyond identifying. rational debate and real discussion critical issues facing them i'm ready to join the movement then welcome the big. bill on my path and tonio in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up on tonight's big picture big pharma is as powerful and

corrupt and sinister as big oil and big finance we're going to talk about that so why don't more people know about what's up. more on that in just a moment when we come back also progressive populism is having a comeback in the democratic party thanks to people like elizabeth warren so why are the rest of the bill wait democrat types paying attention and being god is the big guys the big guys the well it's pretty much the only word coming out of the mouths of most congressional republicans today why is that and why does darrell isis stand to gain from fanning the conspiracy theory flying. tom's going to have more on that on tonight's daily take. you need to know this in the night teen eighty's bear corp produced a medicine that was supposed to improve the lives of him a feeling x.

bear didn't tell those hemophilia x. that their product was infected with hiv entire families of human feel x. died with aids as the virus spread within households when bear was ordered to stop selling their drugs in america they actually dumped their aids laden product in asia and killed asian families no one with bear management was arrested no one went to prison no one who made those psychopathic quality decisions went to prison at all they claimed the protection of their status as a corporation that corporate status gave management the ability to kill people for profit and not go to prison i have a one of those civil cases against baron saw first hand that this was a rogue operation not typical of most corporations but but how do you put that rogue in prison what do you do to arrest them. today rogue corporations have the best of all worlds they take advantage of the constitutional protections they were

originally written for a living breathing humans they went that wasn't written for corporations but they argue that the u.s. supreme court mandated one hundred thirty years ago that we have to treat a corporate a corporation exactly like a person and we know that's not true but they argue that the fourteenth amendment was written to protect their corporate person status with equal protection and due process according to them well they're just one of us but when the conduct of that corporate person is so vile when they make decisions to kill people to increase profit we hear the argument that gee whiz it was a corporate wide decision we hear that was no single person to hold anybody accountable so why tell us that many many individual psychopaths were responsible in the criminal conduct they do that because they know that nobody goes to prison the big winners are the corporations that are the most corrupt to make matters worse we have

a supreme court that's packed mostly with lawyers who were employed by america's most powerful corporations before they became judges it's a court full of judges who sit on that court because corporate powerhouses helped put them there not because they have exceptional talent their decisions are predictable ninety percent of the time corporations win every time this court finishes writing its opinions about treating corporations more like people the product they deliver looks like one of those warm and fuzzy hallmark greeting cards for god's sakes that rallies our emotions with feel good pictures of puppies and kittens by the by way of words they try to paint a norman rockwell kind of picture that's going to make us invite this saint like corporate person to dinner with our families will a word of advise if you do invite that corporate person over for dinner do. don't allow him around your small children and certainly count the silver settings before

this corporate person leaves your house most importantly recognize that the mother teresa character that the us supreme court tries to sell you on is really a character closer to freddie krueger as this court expands the constitutional protections of this poor misunderstood end of the known as the corporate person they should also spend some time expanding avenues that allow us to do what we would do to any psychopath who harms our family we put that psychopath in handcuffs we throw that psychopath either in an institution or in prison joining me now for more of this is david haynes managing attorney for the cochran firm in d.c. and baltimore david i got it i got to tell you what's happening right now is these new mega you see pharmaceutical companies out buying these mega deals that what's that all about the big mega drug company it's just the age of the mega merger is what we're looking at and why is this being done it's for pure increase corporate

profitability and so that these companies can avoid taxes it's all about taxes saving money saving the bottom line shilling the american taxpayer while they charge for overpriced drugs well think about what here's what so a glee about that first of all they don't want to pay taxes in the united states their star starting these mergers overseas to avoid paying taxes but you can bet they sure want the medicare dollars they sure want the medicaid dollars they'll take that money but they don't want to pay anything back into the system and the other thing that really is interesting to me almost three billion dollars spent on law and by the drug industry just in the last few years three billion dollars what does three billion dollars buy for a drug company like merck or fives or our lhuillier are johnson and johnson you can guarantee that they're not spending three billion dollars just for the health of just just in case it's by access. it's buying special privileges as you said with medicare it's an insurance of the two thousand and six loophole that we can't that

there's no to go in the medicare can do for these drug companies stays inflated well let's talk about that just about what people don't understand can you imagine we have a setting now where the drug use the government medicare can't say to the drug company i want to negotiate your prize because your you have the mark up of five thousand percent now that is a startling number but that's a real number isn't there some companies with a five thousand percent markup on their little pill but we're saying to them ology which is you know you're not you're prohibited from negotiating other groups can negotiate but medicare cannot federal government cannot and so you see what the lobby is you think big oil the defense industry they're all spending lobbying dollars they must know who's spending more the pharmaceutical industry they're the ones who have the armies of lobbyists that are out here in the city in the state houses wining and dining in our legislators for special protection for the pharmaceutical industries which are spending money in the billions of dollars

because they know it's money that's going to be returned to them ten twenty one hundred fold so it what it does david it does it allows them i take it then to buy for to buy price fixing other words yes you're a special industry you can engage in and i trust you can engage in price fixing that's fine what it was other things that it does is it's a get out of jail free card when they spend three billion dollars lobbying it it's across the board to talk about price fixing antitrust pay for delay american consumers need to know what that is when the when a drug is prepared to come off of patent and generics can enter the space so the drug prices will come down the if the branded company just buys them off one multimillion dollar deals and so that the patient loses and i let me go let me get this right let me get this right you have a fives or a company or a merck company making a good zillion dollars off of medicare off of taxpayers is illions it up. i mean the numbers are staggering so this company says we have this drug on the market and

if it moves over to the generic we're going to lose money so they they work out a deal with the generic don't they if they are paid under the table what will happen is a generic will begin to develop a drug it take it takes years and then the it will be a patent there's sometimes patent litigation but then lo and behold there's a settlement between fives are in the generic and they pay the millions of dollars sometimes fifty million dollars a year for multi-year deals to keep the generic out of the space anyone can understand that that's anti-competitive anti-trust and the loser of course is the consumer the patient and their medication is being denied to people who need it the most i'm working on two cases right now you're familiar with them where we have actually seen the industry phony up clinical data absolutely make it up since of the f.d.a. the dysfunctional f.d.a. doesn't have enough sense to even ask the right questions what ends up happening is the drug makes it through and ends up killing people tonight we're going to be talking about transvaginal mess one good example destroying the lives of women

everywhere because the f.d.a. was dysfunctional but also because the company johnson and johnson were going to talk about phoneys up a bunch of information about the safety of that how do you ever stop it really how do you ever do anything about the power of an industry that can spend three billion dollars lobbying our government and we need to have appropriate safeguards and we need to stop giving the pharmaceutical industry a free pass i mean we need to have f.d.a. you said it is is powerless they can't police all of this a lot of it will result to firms such as ours which are having to prosecute these cases simply but it shouldn't get that far that patients are injured and killed and so obviously we need real reform on the capitol hill on capitol hill but will that ever happen when these lobbyist have them in their back pocket what we see this is the new eric holder thing this is the new you know the the new justice department is. we don't really throw people in jail when they kill other people as long as

they have three piece suit on and as long as they have an armani tie in a rolex watch we don't throw him in jail what do we do to him well we just give him a fine and you know it's just a cost for bit of business for these companies at this point i mean it's an elite club it's a membership card that if you're willing to pay a billion dollar fine you can do whatever you want and it's a get out of free jail card is exactly what it is until the government wakes up and we have some real prosecutions and set of these deferred prosecution agreements which are purely civil in nature then we're not going to see any real reform real quickly david you know this this president came into office i'm going to reform all this i want to get the f.d.a. under control on the give wall street under control what his see done name names anything you can tell me that this president has done to to make the drug industry do what the rest of the of corporations should be doing and that's to play fair what is he don't know reforms come to mind i mean hatch waxman teeth listen and a lot of ways we don't see any reform coming out of the white house instead what we

really see is a revolving door among the administration out to big law right down the street where they're then working for these companies after a couple year stint over the administration or in the justice department and so these prosecutions need to get real when we have this criminal conduct and people are dying as a result individuals need to be held responsible well that's the nature of the nature of the business and you know the only way to change it is to keep going after him in courtrooms all over this country that's what you do david james thank you for joining me thank you paula. coming up progressive populism is having a major moment outside the beltway so why aren't democrats in washington paying attention the answer right after the break i'll be back.

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back to the show nate silver is calling for the republicans to capture the senate and twenty fourteen election mates usually right it's a little scary he's making that prediction based on a number of factors including the increasing unpopularity of this president a lack of democrats showing up at the polls but more importantly democrats are at risk of losing the senate november because they failed to to deliver a clear convincing message to the american public democrats are so focused on what's going on inside the beltway that they've lost sight of what's going on across america and unless they realize that pretty quickly republicans are going to have even more power in washington on election day joining me now for more on this

is robert borsak co-founder and co-director of campaign for america's future robert what is it that the democrats are missing again about the notion of populism well we're in a populist moment you know the economy is lousy people are looking for real help they're looking for who's going to be a champion or not and i think particularly the incumbent democrats in the senate who are running in what are called conservative states are choosing to run campaigns which that where they hunker down and run as incumbents run on local issues and are failing to draw a clear distinctions about what they'll fight for as opposed to their republican vote if we if we know this we know the numbers we know that if you if the broad spectrum of numbers says that the american public may not know what populism is but they don't care about things like social security they care about medicare they care about health care they care about safety nets and if you said ok well all of that equals populism the majority of americans really do have

a center of populism but what's the competing interest there why is it that the democrats are still flailing around out there without a message afraid to embrace the message of populism but the first message is going to be about jobs and democrats are tongue tied about jobs because they don't want to spend money. because to spend money you're going to have to raise taxes you have to raise taxes on the rich and the corporations and often they're out there if you're in a senate race you're raising millions of dollars for your election that starts to make you a little tongue tied so that's the first big gap you've got to have a growth agenda and to have a growth agenda you have to take on our trade policy you have to take on our invest our lack of investment in basic infrastructure and putting people back to work and you have to insist that the rich and the corporations pay their fair share in taxes those things are popular but they aren't popular with donors and they aren't popular with and they're they make people nervous if you're a company senator i think you uncover the keywords the populism is not is not

popular with donors when the donors are big oil big pharma big military industrial call slice contracts big wall street those people don't want to hear a candidate democrat or republican talking in any terms that sound like populism and so because of that isn't that kind of self-defeating for the democrats when they they're moved by that and they're ignoring the fact that if you do talk the right way then the american public might respond in vote for it to be fair they have an argument about how they'll win and sometimes it works these republican candidates are on the extreme right they tend to be anti choice they're anti immigration reform they tend to be from the white party that is exclusionary of all people of color and so the notion that you run liberal social issues you run on minimum wage which people which is very popular you run on pay equity and you

have the beginnings of an appeal to people that you hope can bring out your base the problem is in an off year election. this electorate will be whiter older and more male than the presidential your electorate unless something is done to dramatically change who's interested in the election and they're more excited too or they were they're more excited about showing up is that a big factor in any election that there's kind of that value they say well who's who's interested in really showing up in every midterm it's never the democrats it's always the republicans now we're going to see that again you think well we'll see you know the senior vote is i think more up for grabs and people think because republicans have been attacking social security medicare. seniors voted overwhelmingly republican in the last by election by election and they come out and vote in large numbers if that vote is closer and will be had in these races are close it will be an interesting race i don't to joe spot is nate silver right i think you know the percentages now would lean to i think the republicans have

a very good shot at taking the senate but these these races are very close and there are some candidates that are getting attention shine a bellows in maine rick whalen in south dakota who are running populist kim yeah and it's working and we'll see we'll see how well let me ask you this we saw we saw . hillary clinton i could've sworn six months ago she was talking as a populist i was listening to and i almost had to take out my telephone to get some type of google interpreter to understand what in the hell she was actually saying but it almost sounded like she was trying to move towards populism but maybe it's because of the elizabeth warren factor what your take on that well i hope that's true you know hillary has the advantage for four years she's been in the state department so she hasn't really had to express views on domestic politics and the domestic economy and everyone expected her to defend the president so as she defines her own candidacy she can define it as very different than her president

her husband's presidency because the times are different and then obama's presidency and i think. she's a stronger candidate if she does that so i hope she moves towards the war in position there's no question that what's fascinating about this moment is poll after poll after poll shows that the majority of americans are support a whole range of populist positions from taxing the rich corporations to changing our trade policy to curbing wall street to invest in the country etc and that. there is in the democratic party some of the most attractive leadership in the senate elizabeth warren sherrod brown jeff merkley some of the most attractive leadership in the house the the leaders of the rising american electorate the obama majority the base of the party with organized labor etc all supportive of a more populist position than we get out of this administration and certainly out

of the well that's what we're looking at we abandon truthfully abandon populist not just with citizens united i mean citizens united was the icing on the cake but the but the democratic party is very clear there are no longer anything that looks close to a puppy you've got some exceptions but they're not even you wouldn't generally call him a populist party you used to but not anymore and bill clinton changed all that when he came to said you know we can and need wall street and whatever wall street wants is the politics of what we're going to become we saw with obama obama ticket even worse than than bill clinton i mean he raised it to a whole new level to where we don't even prosecute wall street because we're afraid they're going to get mad at us and we're afraid that they're going to be we're going to be regarded as is populist how does that change with hillary clinton i will say but i think it could change because the party has changed the party is changing that is i mean that hillary's totally tied in with wall street and with the same donors and such or so they're distinct limits here but there's no question that public opinion has changed because this economy is not working for them and

the war and message that the rules are rigged and these people and it doesn't work for you not because of your fault because the rules are. rigged to benefit the few that's a powerful message and someone will represent that message in the next election leveler is really as far as i get there robert borsak you are the guy to go to when we want to know what's happening with politics thank you for joining me. the. the you know over the next two election cycles progressive democrats have the chance to reach to retake the party from wall street types and believe it or not one of the things that could that could help them do that is rand paul's presidential run seriously believe it or not that's one of the things is a matter of fact here's tom's take on that very issue. president rand paul may not sound too catchy but rand paul being the republican nominee for president in two thousand and sixteen could actually be a good thing maybe even the best thing that happens to democrats or that has

happened to democrats in our nation for a long time let me explain political commentator peter biner has a new piece in the atlantic where he writes that now that chris christie has been knocked out of the number one spot the republican party rand paul is the likely front runner for the republican presidential nod in twenty sixteen writes that if chris christie was ever the front runner for the twenty sixteen republican presidential nomination he isn't anymore so it christie is no longer the candidate to beat the twenty sixteen republican race who is believe it or not it's rand paul he goes on to write that the twenty six thousand election could turn out to be like the election in one thousand nine hundred sixty four when the dark horse weird for in conservative candidate barry goldwater became that party's the republican party's nominee as minor puts it it's just possible that two thousand and sixteen could be another nine hundred sixty four nine hundred eighty years when the republican establishment proved we can pliable enough to allow a candidate previously considered extreme to come in from the coal miner is the

reason for this in addition to the fact that rand paul has good polling numbers is that there is an existing infrastructure of paul support within the republican party thanks to ron paul taking big chunks of support from republicans and twenty twelve. those people who are ron paul followers in two thousand and twelve are now rand paul's supporters and they're well him better to do the republican party so basically rand paul has a very good shot at becoming the republican nominee for president in two thousand and sixteen. so why is it but that might be a good thing for democrats and maybe even for our nation. the answer is really simple a rand paul republican candidate could force democrats to move way to the left. let me explain rand paul hates things like social security and medicare is very right he hates long term unemployment benefits or oppose the minimum wage will do the very right he's even said that companies should be able to discriminate based

on race or gender or sexual orientation very right economically thinks everything should be privatized the only exceptions being the military police forces and our judiciary and he's totally opposed to a woman's right to choose to have an abortion very right but most people don't know that those are rand paul's positions what people do know is that paul is strongly opposed to the n.s.a. snooping and spying on american citizens they do know that he's incredibly skeptical of our nation's drone program and that he's in favor of gay marriage and people also know that paul is in favor of decriminalizing all drugs not just pot and earlier rand paul's position on just these issues he appears to be way to the left of much of the official democratic party so if the democratic nominee wanted to have any chance of defeating rand paul whether that nominee was hillary clinton of the warner andrew cuomo they'd have to move away to the left of the current mainstream democratic party's positions. if things like this were to play out like

that and if paul did become the republican nominee in two thousand and sixteen it's likely that the two thousand and sixteen election could be the election where things start getting really populist you imagine a democrat said to become more progressive to take on a libertarian republican candidate creating protectionist trade policies decriminalizing pot could become official parts of the democratic party platform just to push back on rand paul suddenly pushing for things like health care for all and legalizing marijuana would seem mainstream. make no mistake about it rand paul being on the republican ticket for president two thousand and sixteen could be the powerful force needed to move the entire democratic party from presidential nominees to state assembly nominees to the left what a remarkable outcome that. coming up republicans have made suppressing the vote one of their top priorities but could a recent court decision in wisconsin stop them in their tracks more on that court

decision and what it means for the future of voting rights after the break. please give me a. very hard take a. long one have you ever had sex with her make her look.

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it's. good to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher. in the best of the rest of the news voter id laws or a sham they don't take my word for it to a federal judge lynn adelman zwerg on tuesday he struck down the wisconsin's voter

id suppression law in his ruling and absolutely tore up the notion of suppressing votes adelman argued that the law blatantly discriminated against minorities violating section two of the voting rights act and he also pointed out that the new voter restrictions were totally unnecessary that's because as he wrote cases of potential voter fraud occurs so infrequently that no rational person should be concerned about it yet here you hear that scott walker there's no such thing is voter fraud but make no mistake about it joe judge adams ruling on wisconsin in the voter id law is a big deal such a big big deal in fact that it could be the turning point in the fight for voting rights joining me now on this is from is brad friedman from los angeles founder and editor of the published publisher of the brad blog and just all round smart guy brad thank you for joining me did i get it right is the wisconsin the situation

important. oh yeah the wisconsin decision is really important and make no mistake mistake scott walker hears it very well he had been previously planning to call a special session to reconvene his state legislature to tweak this this law if it went down at the state supreme court because there's a separate state case against this law as well he said this was the only law that was pressing enough that he needed to call back the the legislature well now he has said no we can't do it because the federal judge blitter rated this law so thoroughly that there is no tweak that we can do between now and november when by the way scott walker happens to be on the on the ballot this november so yeah you got a right and this is big not just for wisconsin but for the entire nation because this is the first federal case to strike down photo i.d. restriction laws like this under section two of the voting rights they all have as

part of the read let me ask you about that people watching this program they want to know in their backyard this is going on do they have a new tool and what do they do with that new tool how do they get involved in saying dammit you know i don't want this happening in my backyard i know i can do something i can look at the decision that just came out of wisconsin we can take that blueprint we can take that outline and use it other places explain the distinction between this section two and the section five that was thrown out by the by this dysfunctional supreme court majority well the good news in this case is that the department of justice is already using exactly what worked in wisconsin section two of the voting rights act that's the section that's still standing since the supreme court gutted the heart of the voting rights act last year section five is what they used to use in section five there were certain jurisdictions with a history of discrimination at the polling place that had to essentially prove to

the d.-o. . jay before the law went into effect that it would that these types of laws would not discriminate and these laws went down time and again because they are discriminatory so when the supreme court gutted section five states like texas north carolina they rejoiced and they put into place laws that had already been turned down under section five thinking that section two it'll be harder to strike down these laws section two applies to all fifty states and it bars discrimination in all fifty miles and let me ask you this is yeah but wait until after it's in place as i look at this what i find most interesting in this blueprint this guideline that this judge has laid out is it's elegant it's simple in every regard he says look first of all how many voters might lose their right to vote simple question we can do the math on that more importantly says if we take the last election and we apply those numbers would it have made a difference that's

a substantial difference that we ought to pay attention to that was another thing he paid attention to and then and then the third thing you paid attention do is look what has the state shown he's shown no evidence of fraud those three point seems seem critical for anybody listening to this program who wants to do something about it in your state what would you add to that well yeah you're right he found that three hundred thousand voters in wisconsin legal voters registered voters do not have the type of idea that would be required to vote under this law and that back in two thousand and ten the governor's election in wisconsin the u.s. senate election was decided by fewer votes than that that's the case everywhere and proponents of these discriminatory laws have not been able to show that there's any actual fraud that would be deterred by this type of law there is some voter fraud out there but it's by and large this by absentee ballot these types of laws only apply to the polling place he made justice roberts look like

a monkey didn't he i mean. i don't well i don't want to overstate it but he really did he just justice roberts spring court judge saying that hey you know there is no more problem with racism in voting even address that in his opinion i mean i thought that was really bold and you well it was he hit right at roberts the situation from the voting rights act last year and what we find case after case in judge edelman underscored this up in wisconsin is that in case after case it's minorities it's the poor who are discriminated against by these laws because it is minorities and poor who don't have the type this specific type of photo id that would be needed to vote under these laws they are more disenfranchised than anyone else including the lead plaintiff by the way eighty four year old woman ruth l. frank who who was born at home so she never had a birth certificate it would have cost her twenty bucks to have a birth certificate made but she found out on the registry of deeds they misspelled

her name so she would have to pay two hundred bucks to correct that you know so that she could then pay twenty bucks for the birth thread so that then she would get her free thank you for being out there looking out for voter rights in this country thank you brad everybody ought to know brad friedman's blog and stay in touch with it all the time to know what's happening across this country thanks pap for shit at the same time as republicans push forward with their voter suppression efforts private corporations are trying to do some election rigging of their own them. when the supreme court issued its citizens united decision back in two thousand and ten many in the media predicted it would end by sure in a new era of corporate electioneering and they were right of course but they only had half the story you won't hear anywhere in the mainstream media but over the past decade or so our elected representatives of slowly but surely had the power to decide our elections over to a very small handful of giant and mostly republican connected corporations and

they've done so by giving them the right to collect and count our votes at one time counting the votes was something done by people like you and me it was done by volunteers political party representatives government workers my mom used to do this there was anything sketchy with the results you could compare those results with exit polls conducted by one of many reputable polling companies the system worked for years and for good reason to accept polls were and still are the gold standard to detect fraud but something changed and only in the united states in the early two thousand private corporations armed with fancy new electronic voting machines every day people began counting the vote they were helped out by president george w. bush who in two thousand and give that money to giant electronic voting machine corporations supporters of electronic voting machines say they're safer and better than manolo county that's just

a flat out lie anyone who wants to easily can use a voting machine to swing an election. if you don't believe me just check out this two thousand and four video of howard dean playing around with a d. ball voting machine while he was guest hosting tina brown c n.b.c. t.v. show. this is the official program that the county supervisor sees as we can see here howard dean has a thousand votes and lex luthor has five hundred so you're beating the absolutely right you see we have eight hundred votes here for you and four hundred for next loop through let's just flip those we'll make that four hundred. and we'll give one hundred votes to tiger let's just see what happened here we go back into gems the legitimate way and as you can see now howard dean only has five hundred votes there has nine hundred in tiger woods has one hundred votes we just edited them lection it took us ninety seconds. really is that easy in fact according to black box voting dot org a nonprofit group dedicated to investigating problems of electronic voting and

rigging intellectual like trying to a voting machine is so easy a chimpanzee can do it if you think this is all just a bunch of hand wringing think again because ever since the early two thousand when the use of electronic voting machines really took off things in america really got we're back in two thousand and two for example polling showed popular georgia democrat senator max cui won with a solid five point lead over his republican challenger saxby chambliss less than a week before election day but when the votes were counted using electronic voting machines made and operated by the corporation chambliss emerged victorious by about two points so what happened well it might have had something to do with the software patch the d. bold installed in machines in democratic leaning counties months before voters what the polls are will never actually know what happened. as robert f. kennedy jr noted in his piece on the two thousand and two georgia senate race it is

impossible to know whether the machines were rigged to alter the election in georgia the bill's machines provided no paper trail making a recount impossible that's the whole problem with electronic voting machines we'll never really know companies like the bold don't have to reveal their software secrets because they're protected under copyright law and again unlike paper ballots you can't really see when someone messes with your touchscreen vote it happens outside of plain sight ultimately however the biggest problem with electronic voting machines is that they violate the core principles of our democratic republic whether or not election rigging exists my bets are that it does but let's it does it still the whole idea of privatizing our vote is a crime against our form of government think of it this way the whole purpose of government is to administer the commons so things like parks and healthcare roads

and you know the stuff we need to survive. and in the democratic republic voting is the most important part of the commons. it's the most important because it's the glue that holds everything else together bodine is how we the people hold the managers of our commons that is our elected leaders how we hold them accountable for their actions and in the one thing we used to hold everyone else accountable thomas paying called the heart of democracy the vote handing that over to a corporation of for profit corporation that is only accountable to its shareholders and counts that vote in secret is the ultimate crime against democracy . on tuesday millions of americans went to vote for the candidate or ballot question of their choice but thanks to more than a decade of election privatization we'll never know whether their votes actually count or that's a shame it's time to return to paper ballots that are counted by actual human

beings ireland and canada tried out electronic voting machines eventually abandon them ireland just hold theirs for scrap metal a few months ago it's time we followed their lead privatizing the vote is just absolutely insane it's time to scrap corporate controlled electronic voting machines and return our to our elections to where they belong in the hands physically of we the people. i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question or. america

is join me. in that in part and any financial support carried contributes and much. only on been passed and only on. what cable television during the day chances are you've seen an ad warning about the dangers of transvaginal mess the ad model of it might have looked something

like this. surgical masks alert trims bounds and implants have been linked to pain infection scarring bowel and bladder perforations you are in every problems and additional surgeries if you or a loved one suffered medical complications from a trans about implant you may be entitled to financial compensation transvaginal most is used to treat multiple health conditions and women but it's most commonly used to treat pelvic organ prolapse or pop but there's they're hugely serious complications and side effects that can result from transvaginal most surgery including infection pain your unary problems blood vessel perforation and death but the problems continue even after surgery the problems with friends vegetal mess have become so widespread that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of lawsuits have been filed against the companies that make the product just yesterday transvaginal mess manufacturer endo international p.l.c. reached a staggering eight hundred thirty million dollars settlement with women who suffered

serious side effects from the product meanwhile the corporate action network of consumers right group is launching. arrested in the campaign against johnson and johnson the biggest manufacturer of pelvic mess joining me now is mark fleishman president and founder of the corporate action network marc welcome this is this is a product that it was never tested never tested by the manufacturer never tested by the f.d.a. put in in thousands and thousands of women's body that's changing their life for the worse give me your take on what your network is doing your activists network to turn all this around. the corporate action network was founded to address a greek use corporate abuse and with johnson and johnson and the other mesh manufacturers produced was a product that was never necessary in the first place tens of thousands of women have been have been injured hundreds of thousands of women have been implanted with

mash it is the mutilations the the damage has been extraordinary and we started this campaign focused on johnson and johnson and its ethicon division and we were shocked to to discover that thousands of pages of documents had been destroyed and hard drives have been wiped clean after retention order had been issued and i had drafted a letter to attorney general holder demanding a criminal investigation and that is currently under review you know let me this is such an agreed i've been i've been handling complex cases for thirty years this is one of the worst conduct i've seen in a long long time we came across the document you're familiar with this tells you what the attitude of johnson and johnson is towards the women's whose lives they've destroyed they talk about component of it they describe it is is this.

it says this is not going away any time soon and competition will have a field day major damage control offensive needs to start to educate the reps and surgeons out front they will see this blue s.-h. i-t. not our words and it's ok this is why i wanted to launch a t.v. the other words they're saying we have a component of this thing we don't understand it we don't hundreds understand what's making women sick we don't even know what the world is we've never tested it but we're going to save this money by putting this blue stuff in there we're going to charge we're going to charge almost a thousand dollars for the product that cost us twenty nine dollars because the blue stuff they're talking about that they don't understand they're putting in women's bodies all over america the groups that you've put together the groups that you put together activist groups are changing all that aren't you. we are and i

have honor of joining together with survivors women like a still taz twenty nine years old when mesh was implanted she's had twelve operations since that time the mesh is a roaded the measure rode it into her uterus part of her uterus had to be removed she was no longer able to have children she recently adopted a child and a still stood up she stood up in new brunswick new jersey at the annual shareholders meeting to make sure that other women had someone that could speak for them robert fish who also i had the honor to be with who adored his mother his mother had mesh implanted and the same same damage but resulting in so much pain unbearable pain robert would visit his mother every day in the hospital and finally his mother darlene fish took her life and robert came to new jersey to make sure that as a voice as

a legacy and as honor to his mother to make sure that other women did not suffer this those are stand the stories are incredible the stores are incredible we see stories that have drug addiction because the pain is so bad ruin marriages ruin thirty and forty year marriages the female can they can no longer have any kind of sexual relationship you have this product this been put into their body that is extruding through the vagina actually extruding from the front of the vagina extruding to the rectum and this company has known how bad this is and to this day they have never studied to find out how to make this product safe now this is johnson and johnson the biggest manufacturer of this product in the country and the first time they took notice of this was when you showed up at their headquarters and you had these activists say mad as hell saying you better listen to us isn't that what happened this is. this is a great story because you made something happen here that's what i think is so

important marc you made something happen here what your take on that well last week at the annual johnson and johnson shareholders meeting they love to hold these events as private affairs and we were able with survivors to go inside of the johnson and johnson meeting because we had proxies and the women who were there were able to tell their story they were able to speak directly to a room of eight hundred investors the johnson and johnson board the johnson and johnson officers and others and we were able at the end to meet with chairman gorski and and members of the board. and we had a huge effect following on the heels of that the f.d.a. has now issue proposed orders which would in effect if these proposals turn into orders one in four required recall this product mark look at this started with

you it started with a young attorney named brian al stock who thought it was a horrible thing that was taken place with your help hopefully we can do this particular skin i'll be turned around mark placement thank you for joining me but thank you for having me. been gazi is back today speaker of the house john boehner called for the creation of a special committee to look into the september twenty twelve benghazi attacks boehner call it comes after the release of the new white house e-mails that republicans have been crazy about and fox news have jumped all over arguing that they are proof of a conspiracy to cover up been god. which is ridiculous meanwhile the house oversight

committee chairman in lead been gazi which honor daryl issued a subpoena for secretary of state john kerry to testify before his witchhunt committee about bin gazi before darrell eyes it begins badgering the secretary of state it's worth taking a look back at who darrell ice the really is and why he doesn't deserve to be in a position of power at all here's tom. it was on june ninth one nine hundred fifty four during the thirtieth day of the so-called army mccarthy hearings when republican senator joe mccarthy was investigating the united states army for communistic timothy's those of welch that counsel for the united states army at that time had had enough of mccarthy's baseless accusations and lies which months and hyperbolic partisan rhetoric and call him out in front of congress and in front of the american people.

look. building. up these let us not assassinate lad further. down and. no. sooner and long as you left no. welch's comments help to open americans eyes to the lunacy and absurdity that was joseph mccarthy fast forward some sixty years and here we are again allowing a job mccarthy ask lawmaker to run amok on capitol hill congressman darrell ices this generation's joe mccarthy or at least the big wanna be we after leading unsuccessful taxpayer funded which months into the i.r.s. so called scandal in the bin gazi terror attacks congressman i say has a set cite on something new. obamacare on fox so called is yesterday i said announce that he was officially launching an investigation to find out what exactly

went wrong with the rollout of health care about gov and that website i ses. the house oversight and government reform committee now looking for answers as well the chair of that committee congressman darrell issa joins me now good to see you congressman you know we just talked to ed henry and he's trying to get answers from jay carney about what went wrong and jay carney said hey look we're not interested in monday morning quarterbacking but you are right it's only the first few minutes of the first quarter of they'll be trillions of dollars spent on obamacare so yes this is not monday morning it's real time and i saw is particularly interested in investigating the contractor that the obama administration principally used to build the health care dot gov website c.g.i. federal and it's close ties to the white house but as it turns out c.g.i. federal is a major republican party donor in fact during the two thousand and twelve election cycle c.g.i. federal gave to granted their allies to himself and executives the c.g.i.

federal personally gave more than twice as much to g.o.p. presidential candidate mitt romney during the two thousand and twelve cycle than to president obama so the company sure doesn't seem like it's too cozy with president obama but all that aside lost in all the coverage of ice is made for t.v. which is any discussion on who he really is for starters i i says the wealthiest member of congress worth an estimated four hundred fifty million dollars making it all the more iran iraq that a man who hasn't had to worry about health care costs in a very long time would choose to go after a program that provides millions of uninsured and low income americans with affordable health care i saw also played a key role in the bush administrations and then attorney general alberto gonzales is politically motivated removal of a united states attorneys and before he came to washington i saw hyped enron's takedown of california's electric system and spent over a million dollars of his own money on advertisements to destroy and discredit governor gray davis' governorship because he was planning to run against davis in

the recall election that he helped make happen but those efforts. fruitless and he broke down into public tears when he learned that enron's ken lay and secretly been meeting and working with arnold schwarzenegger to help schwartz a nigger become governor and that schwarzenegger had filed his papers. i think but today the san diego republican was sold out of his own dream to become governor it's my dislike. so knowing the truth about congressman darrell i say we really want this generation's joe mccarthy leading yet another taxpayer funded which up on capitol hill. your friend posts a photo from a vacation you can't afford. a different. boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still paints

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